On 6/12/2025 5:03 PM, Boqun Feng wrote:
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>> The kernel robot reports it and it is already a strong indication that
>> the subsystem is not hardened against invalid inputs:
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>> "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in rcu_core (3)"
>>
>> so this in the rcu_core() which is part of RCU.
>>
>> But, anyway Joel should decide. I shared my opinion :)
>>
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> Of course, my point is that the urgency is not high enough so we have to
> put it in rcu/fixes, but it's a fix, and if Joel had the time to do
> it, feel free. Joel's decision.
>
Yeah I feel Vlad's fix for a crash is important so I'll send this up to Linus
for 6.16 after some testing this week. For the other 2 patches, since that is
triggered by a trace point, I'll just let Neeraj take them for 6.17.
thanks,
- Joel